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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.8 - Skin of Evil / We'll Always Have Paris / Conspiracy / The Neutral Zone
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Becker
  • Marina Sirtis
  • James L. Conway
  • Joseph L. Scanlan
  • Rod Loomis
  • Patrick Stewart
  • LeVar Burton
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Cliff Bole
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.8 - Skin of Evil / We'll Always Have Paris / Conspiracy / The Neutral Zone / Paramount Home Entertainment:

In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. [+]
After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. -Paul Tonks.

Review Manga / The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 11 and 12 [1991]
Release date: 1995-07-03
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £13.99

Review The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 11 and 12 [1991] / Manga:


Actors & Directors
  • Warwick Davis
  • Eric Walker
  • Aubree Miller
  • John Korty
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Thomas G. Smith
Price: £10.99

Review Caravan of Courage-Ewok Ad. / CBSFOX 1454-50:

The crash of the Towani family's Star Cruiser on the forest moon of Endor sets into motion an extraordinary adventure that takes young Cindel, and her older brother Mace, into the magical world of the Ewoks.

Review 4 Front Video / First Men In The Moon [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Bird
  • Edward Judd
  • Nathan Juran
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Martha Hyer
  • Miles Malleson
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Nigel Kneale
Price: £5.99

Review First Men In The Moon [1964] / 4 Front Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.8 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Robert Beltran
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.8 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Star Trek: Voyager, the first Trek spin-off to be made without any input at all from Gene Roddenberry, made its debut in 1995 and quickly established itself both as markedly different from cosmic cousin Deep Space Nine and as the successor to The Next Generation. Despite a lack of originality in its premise (Lost in Space anyone?), Voyager has none the less often been a bigger ratings success than any of its predecessors. Catapulted unwittingly to the far-flung Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Federation vessel Voyager must try somehow to get back home. The ghost of Katherine Hepburn lives on in Kate Mulgrew's forceful Captain Janeway, who has an equivocal relationship with first officer and Native American-lite Chakotay (Robert Beltran). Tim Russ gives possibly the franchises' first fully realistic (yawn) portrayal of a Vulcan, and to enhance the alien quotient there's cuddly chef Neelix (Ethan Phillips). Garret Wang must have drawn short straw for character development, since his Harry Kim is never imbued with any of the drama of rebellious pilot chum Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), who even gets the series' only romance with the seemingly inescapable resident half-breed B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson). Until the fourth season, the fan favourite was the straight-funny man role of Robert Picardo's nameless Doctor. Then, with the brave Borg storyline "Scorpion Part 2", a serious improvement in the show's behind-the-scenes thinking introduced actress Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9, who immediately upped sex appeal and viewing numbers. There have been some oddities and errors along the way, such as the disappearance of cast regular Kes, the appearance of semi-regular Naomi Wildman, and various Holodeck obssessions with Leonardo Da Vinci, a smoky bar, and an "Oirish" village. Flashes of brilliance still emerge, while Jerry Goldsmith's graceful theme always opens the show in style. [+]
-Paul Tonks.

Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Day Of The Triffids [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicole Maurey
  • Steve Sekely
  • Mervyn Johns
  • Janette Scott
  • Freddie Francis
  • Howard Keel
  • Kieron Moore
Release date: 1997-04-07
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: John Wyndham
Price: £12.99

Review The Day Of The Triffids [1962] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Adv Films / Neon Genesis Evangelion - Part 2 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Keiichi Sugiyama
  • Allison Keith
  • Kotono Mitsuishi
  • Kazuya Tsurumaki
  • Masahiko Ôtsuka
  • Masayuki
  • Spike Spencer
  • Hiroyuki Ishidô
  • Megumi Hayashibara
  • Megumi Ogata
Release date: 1997-06-09
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Neon Genesis Evangelion - Part 2 [1996] / Adv Films:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Cocoon [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Gilford
  • Brian Dennehy
  • Hume Cronyn
  • Wilford Brimley
  • Ron Howard
  • Don Ameche
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Tom Benedek
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.64

Review Cocoon [1985] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In 1985 Cocoon was a significant trend-bucker amongst summer blockbusters. Whereas other genre efforts were devised to lure a teenage audience into FX extravaganzas, this looked like one for their grandparents. Except that it turned out to be a gentle, affecting tale for all ages. Adapted from David Saperstein's novel, director Ron Howard took great delight in focusing on family relationships and the encroachment of old age (themes that reappeared in nearly all his work from here on). The plot is rather surreal in summary: a group of Florida OAPs befriend aliens in next-door's swimming pool and are rejuvenated to youthful well-being. It's in the FX and characterisations that the story comes alive. Both were acknowledged with Academy Awards; with Don Ameche's supporting role deserving praise for more than just the moment when he does some bodypopping on the dance floor. Wilford Brimley is the real star, a bluff old codger wanting to do right by everyone. Steve Guttenberg provides comic support and allows for a little non-wrinkly nudity with foxy space gal Kitty (Tahnee Welch). ILM's visuals remain polished and inspired, but never allowing us to lose sight of the characters basking in their dazzle. [+]
-Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.7 - Coming of Age / Heart of Glory / The Arsenal of Freedom / Symbiosis
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Patrick Stewart
  • LeVar Burton
  • Win Phelps
  • Michael Vejar
  • Denise Crosby
  • Rob Bowman
  • Les Landau
  • Michael Dorn
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.7 - Coming of Age / Heart of Glory / The Arsenal of Freedom / Symbiosis / Paramount Home Entertainment:

In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. [+]
After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. -Paul Tonks.

Review Warner Music Vision / Human Highway - A Film By Neil Young [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Stockwell
  • Neil Young
  • Geraldine Baron
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • Dean Stockwell
  • Neil Young
  • Pegi Young
Release date: 1995-09-25
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Jeanne Field
Price: £4.99

Review Human Highway - A Film By Neil Young [1982] / Warner Music Vision:


Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue - Episodes 39 And 40 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacqueline Pearce
  • Brian Lighthill
  • Peter Tuddenham
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Jan Chappell
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Michael Keating
  • Paul Darrow
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Terry Nation
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.03

Review Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue - Episodes 39 And 40 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:

One thing Blake's 7, the BBC's low budget space opera that ran for four series in the interstellar slipstream of Star Wars, could always be counted on to deliver were memorable cliff-hanging finales. Terminal was the 13th and last episode of the third series (1981-2), where Blake had been replaced by Tarrant (played by Steven Pacey) and Jenna by Dayna (Josette Simon). It was originally planned as the very last episode of all, going-out with a bang by destroying the heroes' starship, the Liberator-a device later used for the climaxes of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek: Generations. When a fourth season was unexpectedly commissioned it opened with Rescue, featuring the shock death of one major character and the first appearance of a new ship, the Scorpio. It also marked the debut of Glynis Barber's sexy new heroine, Soolin, the creation of Script Editor Chris Boucher, who had introduced the even more sexy and popular Leela (Louise Jameson) in Dr Who in the story "The Face of Evil". If the fourth season of Blake's 7 was ultimately to demonstrate a show spectacularly collapsing into self-parody, it certainly began in promisingly eventful fashion. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Mpic Video / Flight To Mars [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Franz
  • Marguerite Chapman
  • John Litel
  • Cameron Mitchell
  • Virginia Huston
  • Lesley Selander
Release date: 1999-06-28
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Arthur Strawn
Price: £9.99

Review Flight To Mars [1951] / Mpic Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Star Wars Trilogy [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Marquand
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Alec Guinness
  • George Lucas
  • Irvin Kershner
  • Mark Hamill
  • Peter Cushing
  • Harrison Ford
Release date: 2002-11-11
Run time: 372 min.
Creator: Leigh Brackett
RRP: £34.99
Price: £24.98

Review Star Wars Trilogy [1977] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

One explanation for the enduring appeal of George Lucas' "space opera" might be that the Star Wars universe is a clever synthesis of a multitude of filmic, cultural and folkloric references, from Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn incarnation of course) to Tolkien to Samurai legends and Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress in particular (the inspiration for R2D2 and C3PO). As a result, audiences of almost all ages can find something to identify with. Luke Skywalker's journey from disaffected teenager dreaming of adventure beyond the narrow confines of home life to Jedi Knight and saviour of the galaxy is the very stuff of fairy-tale: he not only rescues a Princess, but discovers she's a close relative (one explanation for the relatively cool reception accorded to The Phantom Menace might be that it sacrifices the fairy-tale theme for political machination). If there's a lesson to be gleaned from the Skywalker clan it's that no matter how bad things get in the average dysfunctional family, it's never too late for reconciliation. Little wonder, then, that Star Wars continues to grip our collective imagination. This box contains, among other delights, the digitally remastered "Special Edition" versions of the movies, restored and enhanced (some would say "tinkered with") by George Lucas in 1997. Star Wars has the most drastic changes, the best of which are the improved effects sequences; the worst the Cantina showdown where Han Solo near-suicidally now allows Greedo to get off a shot before firing back (since he misses at point-blank range, Greedo must be a very poor assassin indeed). The restoration of the Jabba-Solo scene is interesting although the CGI isn't completely convincing. The Empire Strikes Back also has touched-up effects shots, most spectacularly the expanded vistas of Cloud City; Return of the Jedi has a new song-and-dance number in Jabba's Palace (which is just as excruciating as the original) and a revised ending that looks forward (or should that be backwards?) to Episode I. -Mark Walker.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation: All Good Things - The Full Length TV Movie [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Gates McFadden
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • LeVar Burton
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Michael Dorn
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 1995-05-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Ronald D. Moore
Price: £5.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation: All Good Things - The Full Length TV Movie [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. [+]
After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. -Paul Tonks.

Review 4 Front Video / Explorers [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Bradley Gregg
  • Joe Dante
  • River Phoenix
  • Bobby Fite
  • Ethan Hawke
  • Georg Olden
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Eric Luke
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Explorers [1986] / 4 Front Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 6.8 (Tsunkatse/Collective) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Robert Beltran
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Roxann Dawson
Release date: 2000-10-02
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
Price: £5.99

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 6.8 (Tsunkatse/Collective) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.8 - Honour Among Thieves / Change of Heart
Actors & Directors
  • Avery Brooks
  • Michael Dorn
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Terry Farrell
  • David Livingston
  • Allan Eastman
  • Cirroc Lofton
Release date: 1998-08-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.93

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.8 - Honour Among Thieves / Change of Heart / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. This meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit demonstrating a gutsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; The Maquis was Starfleet vs. Cardassians; Section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; The True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. [+]
Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond) there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Actors & Directors
  • John Calvin
  • J. Larry Carroll
  • Hiroshi Fujioka
  • Janet Julien
  • Charles Lampkin
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £25.00

Review Swordkill-Ghost Warrior [1984] / Ilc Entertainment:


Review Mpic Video / Destination Moon [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Wesson
  • Warner Anderson
  • Erin O'Brien-Moore
  • Irving Pichel
  • Tom Powers
  • John Archer
Release date: 1999-06-28
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Robert A. Heinlein
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.89

Review Destination Moon [1950] / Mpic Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.10 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Kate Mulgrew
Release date: 2001-12-03
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.99

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.10 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Star Trek: Voyager, the first Trek spin-off to be made without any input at all from Gene Roddenberry, made its debut in 1995 and quickly established itself both as markedly different from cosmic cousin Deep Space Nine and as the successor to The Next Generation. Despite a lack of originality in its premise (Lost in Space anyone?), Voyager has nonetheless been a bigger ratings success at times than any of its predecessors. Catapulted unwittingly to the far-flung Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Federation vessel Voyager must try somehow to get back home. The ghost of Katherine Hepburn lives on in Kate Mulgrew's forceful Captain Janeway, who has an equivocal relationship with first officer and Native American-lite Chakotay (Robert Beltran). Tim Russ gives possibly the franchises' first fully realistic (yawn) portrayal of a Vulcan and to enhance the alien quotient there's cuddly chef Neelix (Ethan Phillips). Garret Wang must have drawn short straw for character development, since his Harry Kim is never imbued with any of the drama of rebellious pilot chum Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), who even gets the series' only romance with the seemingly inescapable resident half-breed B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson). Until the fourth season, the fan favourite was the straight-funny man role of Robert Picardo's nameless Doctor. Then, with the brave Borg storyline "Scorpion Part 2", a serious improvement in the show's behind-the-scenes thinking introduced actress Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9, who immediately upped sex appeal and viewing numbers. There have been some oddities and errors along the way, such as the disappearance of cast regular Kes, the appearance of semi-regular Naomi Wildman and various Holodeck obsessions with Leonardo Da Vinci, a smoky bar and an "Oirish" village. Flashes of brilliance still emerge while Jerry Goldsmith's graceful theme always opens the show in style. [+]
-Paul Tonks.

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